Description

GoGrinder is for practicing Go problems.

Improving your reading is the fastest way to get stronger at Go, and solving problems is the best way to improve your reading.

* Comes with 497 problems, and you can easily add your own collections.* Keeps track of % correct and average time on collections so you can track your progress.* Randomly rotates problems to encourage learning key shapes instead of memorizing problems.

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4.1

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Jonathan DiLallo

Great app. No frills, solid go app that you can add your own problem sets to. Position and color randomizer can be disabled for mixed results. Sometimes it will switch colors on the problem but not the comments. My biggest complaint is unable to view thumbnails of collections to skip to a certain problem or solve with reading only. Great resource for grinding out go problems though.

Alex Davey

Can't access menu like everybody else. Unfortunately useless. Used to be a really good app but the e menu button seems to have disappeared. Now it's impossible to change problem sets.

Steve Miller

On Android 6.0.1 w/Samsung Galaxy there is no longer a menu soft key and attempting to hold down the back key (which is now supposed to be how to invoke the menu) results in GoGrinder immediately exiting. I love this app and would like to be able to see this fixed. Update: The workaround is not great, but it works. If you enable Settings -&gt; Personal -&gt; Accessibility -&gt; Dexterity and interaction -&gt; Assistant menu it will force an annoying overlay soft menu that works when holding down back in the app to get to the menu. Maybe this has something to do with not honoring the press and hold delay on the hardware keys? Edit: Thanks for the added features in the latest! It's great to be able to see the nav dots now!

Greg Kirczenow

Best tsumego app Randomly rotates and changes colour. Would be nice if it kept track of problems you got wrong so that you could review them.

Problems with back button fixed! Seems to be working great

Alistair Laurence

Good little but powerful app I can try the problems sequentially or randomly, and when I stop it's waiting for me to continue there. I also like the way the colors and locations are switched ad random. I would like a tweek: when I'm trying to find the solution and I'm say black, after I put a stone the system adds the next white stone. Would it be possible to change this so that I have to put the white stone also at the right place and so on? This would make me think about the best moves for black and white! :)

User reviews

Jonathan DiLallo June 22, 2017

Great app. No frills, solid go app that you can add your own problem sets to. Position and color randomizer can be disabled for mixed results. Sometimes it will switch colors on the problem but not the comments. My biggest complaint is unable to view thumbnails of collections to skip to a certain problem or solve with reading only. Great resource for grinding out go problems though.

On Android 6.0.1 w/Samsung Galaxy there is no longer a menu soft key and attempting to hold down the back key (which is now supposed to be how to invoke the menu) results in GoGrinder immediately exiting. I love this app and would like to be able to see this fixed. Update: The workaround is not great, but it works. If you enable Settings -&gt; Personal -&gt; Accessibility -&gt; Dexterity and interaction -&gt; Assistant menu it will force an annoying overlay soft menu that works when holding down back in the app to get to the menu. Maybe this has something to do with not honoring the press and hold delay on the hardware keys? Edit: Thanks for the added features in the latest! It's great to be able to see the nav dots now!

Good little but powerful app I can try the problems sequentially or randomly, and when I stop it's waiting for me to continue there. I also like the way the colors and locations are switched ad random. I would like a tweek: when I'm trying to find the solution and I'm say black, after I put a stone the system adds the next white stone. Would it be possible to change this so that I have to put the white stone also at the right place and so on? This would make me think about the best moves for black and white! :)

Awesome app, thank you for writing it. Just one thing, though. I noticed in the basic collection, there was a problem I found confusing. In prob121.sgf, after Black plays 1. b3, White plays 2. c3, and I fail the problem. But then it seems to me that Black can reply with 3. c4, placing the white stones at c3 in inescapable atari. The three remaining white stones are also screwed. How is that not a win for Black?

You're right. The response should be C4, and then it's a ko, so B3 is still incorrect.

Jim Grange December 3, 2016

I can't help but feel I have been ripped off here. Like another user, the back button doesn't work. Using the Samsung Galaxy revert button exits the program. How do I get back to the menu? Seems great if only I can access the menu easily. Otherwise it is less than useless. EDIT: The developer responded to this comment, but the response did not address the problem. I am already within a problem set, and there is no "menu" button at all. I am stuck in a problem set and cannot go back to select another one. It's useless.

You should be able to use the standard Android menu button to access the menu. If you don't have one, holding down the task switch button should work.

TanukiTensai October 23, 2015

Problematic Excellent but stuck in a set once started. Back button only exits program on my Samsung Galaxy tab e and also can't access settings. No landscape either... closing the program and then restarting just opens into the last set I was doing lol. To access another set I need to actually delete the problem off my sdcard. Unacceptable...works fine on my phone though

You should be able to use the standard Android menu button to access the menu. If you don't have one, holding down the task switch button should work.

Mario Panebianco December 9, 2013

Great except for one thing The only problem I had is when I completed a problem without understanding why it was correct. The app automatically goes to the next problem with no option for going back. There is not even any time to realise which move was right or learn why.

Very helpful Great app. Pre installed problems are great. My one suggestion would be that I would love it if the app didn't automatically advance upon solution, so I could read the final answer for the harder cases.

Simple and nice. Randomization of color and orientation is a must for me. I also like how it keep tracks on average score (%) for each problem collection. Now what would imo raise this app to the rank of complete awesomeness would be: a. The ability to create brand new problems directly from the app (note that currently you can import problems by copying them manually inside the appropriate folder). b. Some kind of SRS (Spaced Repetition System) mode. Thanks to the author for a great app

Excellent! The problem collection I've tried is just right for my level (7k) and there's a good number of them. But best of all, the interface is exactly right, simple and straightforward. Apparently it's easy to add more problems, but I've not tried that yet.

Excellent! I had a problem with the initial install, where GG couldn't write to my sdcard. The author fixed this in 1.2.1 shortly after my email. Now works like a charm. I've been using this for years on the PC, it is great that there is now an Android version. Serious players study using GG - it is an excellent study aid. @wzhliang you can put more problems on your sdcard using a usb cable and your PC - there are tons of problem sets out there...

Revised review My email complaint to Tim was immediately answered and the updated version was offered. After updating the program works fine. The graphics are nice and clean and it is a joy to be able to work on the go problems during any spare time. Very handy. Haven't tried to download other problems yet. The sets it came with are keeping me busy enough.

mediocre TBH, I was expecting more from this as a paid app but it's exactly the same as the PC version. A few suggestions: - add more problems, or add way of downloading more problems after installation - improve user experience with PAD. On my nook color only 1/3 of the screen is used. - improve UI/sound. It just doesn't feel like a program written for touch screen devices.